CONCEPTIONS OF COSMOS: FROM MYTHS TO THE ACCELERATING UNIVERSE: A HISTORY OF COSMOLOGY.
Publisher: OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
Published: 2007
Place of publication: OXFORD
Language: und; eng
Number of pages: 276
Description: Presenting a history of how the universe at large became the object of scientific understanding, this title offers an integrated and comprehensive account of cosmology that covers all major events from Aristotle's Earth-centred cosmos to the discovery of the accelerating universe.